Courtney Stodden and Doug Hutchison
Age is just a number for those celebrity couples with very big age gaps, though the results are mixed.
Sometimes the May-December romances work for years until one of the partners dies; while other times, they couldn't even last from May through December.
Courtney Stodden was a 16 year old blonde girl with big boobs, who was seeking fame - when out of the blue she married 50-year-old Doug Hutchison, a D-list actor. All facets of their marriage life were reported by Us Weekly, and it seemed that all publicity surrounding their age difference was a ploy to help bolster her fame.
Anna-Nicole Smith and J. Howard Marshall
The voluptuous model Anna-Nicole Smith was 27 years old when she wed the millionaire J. Howard Marshall, who was 62 years older than she was.
Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart
It's a great pity that they are both now deceased.
Lauren Bacall was 20 when she fell in love with the actor Humphrey Bogart, who was 45 at the time. Their love endured until Bogart's death in 1957.
Melania Knauss and Donald Trump
Hollywood has always looked back at them as an unforgettable couple.
Donal Trump is 24 years older than his third wife Melania Knauss. They've had children and remained happily married for years.
Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas
They two share a birthday - September 25 - but Michael Douglas was born 25 years earlier than Catherine. They've gone through ups and downs together, but Douglas said in an interview that the separation made their relationship even stronger.
Sam and Aaron Taylor-Johnson
Fifty Shades of Grey director Sam Taylor has 23 years on her younger husband Aaron Johnson, the hunky Kick-Ass actor. They two seem quite happy together, and he even hyphenated her last name with his.
Calista Flockhart and Harrison Ford
The Ally McBeal actress is 22 years younger than the legendary Star Wars actor. Calista told PEOPLE that it was Ford who spilled the wine on her, not the other way around.
Hilaria and Alec Baldwin
Hilaria, a yoga instructor, is 26 years younger than the actor Alec Baldwin. They have two children together - a daughter and a son.
Celine Dion and Rene Angelil
The husband Rene Angelil, also Dion's manager, was 26 years older than Dion. Their love didn't dim with time for Dion put her Las Vegas residency on pause in 2015 to better nurse Rene during his cancer battle.
Crystal Harris and Hugh Hefner
Hef married Crystal Harris, who is 60 years younger than he is, in 2013, putting men half his age to shame. Hef used to date multiple blonde twentysomethings at the same time, though he has cooled down a little bit since the marriage.
Katie Holmes
Katie Holmes married Tom Cruise, after dating for about a year, on November 18, 2006, when she was 27 and he was 43. They divorced in 2012. This was Holmes's first marriage.
Calista Flockhart
Cruise was previously married to Mimi Rogers from 1987–1990 and Nicole Kidman from 1990-2001. Holmes and Cruise had one child, Suri, and parented his children with Kidman, Isabella and Connor.
Calista Flockhart began dating Harrison Ford in 2002, when he was 60 and she was 38. They married on June 15, 2010.
Amy Yasbeck
This is Flockhart's first marriage, and Ford has been married twice before.
Amy Yasbeck married her "Problem Child" co-star John Ritter on September 18, 1999, when she was 37 and he was 51. When they met at a read-through for "Problem Child," Ritter joked that Yasbeck was too young to play his wife. They had a daughter, Stella, in 1999 and remained married until Ritter's death in 2003.
Nancy Kerrigan
Ritter was previously married to the actress Nancy Morgan from 1977 to 1996.
Nancy Kerrigan married Jerry Solomon on September 9, 1995, when she was 25 and he was 40. This is Kerrigan's only marriage and Solomon's third.
Milla Jovovich
The couple is still married and has 3 children together.
Milla Jovovich married Luc Besson in 1997 when she was 22 and he was 38. She was previously briefly married to Shawn Andrews, but the marriage was quickly annulled. Jovovich has been married to the director Paul W. S.
Mena Suvari
Anderson since 2009. Besson was married twice before Jovovich, and he has been married to Virginie Silla since 2004.
Mena Suvari married Richard Brinkmann on March 4, 2000, when she was 21 and he was 37. They divorced in 2005.
Phoebe Cates
Suvari was later married to Simone Sestito from 2010-2012.
Phoebe Cates married Kevin Kline in 1989, when she was 26 and he was 42. They originally met at a 1983 audition for "The Big Chill." This the first & only marriage for both, and the couple has two children.
Shania Twain
Shania Twain married Robert Lange on December 28, 1993, when she was 28 and he was 44. Though they had a son in 2001, the couple divorced in 2010 after Lange had an affair with Twain's best friend.
Paulina Porizkova
Twain went on to marry her former best-friend's ex-husband, Frédéric Thiébaud, in 2011.
Paulina Porizkova married Ric Ocasek, lead singer of The Cars, on August 23, 1989, when she was 24 and he was 40. The two met while filming a music video, when the model was 19 and Ocasek was already married.
Julie Chen
They have two children.
"Big Brother" host Julie Chen married CBS CEO Les Moonves on December 23, 2004, when she was 34 and he was 54. The couple are still married today.
Annette Bening
This is the only marriage for Chen, but Moonves was still married to Nancy Wiesenfeld when he began dating Chen.
Annette Bening married Warren Beatty in 1992 when he was 55 and she was 34. Notorious ladies' man Beatty had never been married before, but it is Bening's second marriage.
Stephanie Seymour
They have four children born between 1992 and 2000.
Model Stephanie Seymour married billionaire Peter Brant in July 1995, when she was 27 and he was 48. The couple are still married today and have 3 children together, born between 1993 and 2004. Seymour was previously married to Tommy Andrews, with whom she had a son, and she was in a very public and volatile relationship with Axl Rose in the early 90s.
Sophia Loren
Peter Brant was previously married from 1969-1995 to Sandra Simms, with whom he had 5 children.
Sophia Loren officially married film producer Carlo Ponti on April 9, 1966, when she was 32 and he was 54. They first met when the actress was 15 and Ponti was 37. Their first wedding was in 1957, but Ponti was still married to his first wife, Giuliana, at the time (as Italy did not recognize their divorce) - so the couple had to have their marriage annulled in 1962 lest they be charged with bigamy.
Kathie Lee Gifford
Loren and Ponti have two children, born in 1968 and 1973.
Kathie Lee Gifford married her husband Frank Gifford in 1986 when she was 33 and he was 56. The couple are still married today and has two children, born 1990 and 1993. Kathie Lee was previously married to Paul Johnson from 1976–1983.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Frank Gifford was previously married to Maxine Avis Ewart.
Jacqueline Kennedy married shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis on October 20, 1968, when she was 39 and he was 62. They remained married until his death in 1975. Jacqueline was previously married to John F.
Lauren Bacall
Kennedy from 1953 until his assassination in 1963. Aristotle Onassis was previously married to Athina Livanos from 1946-1960.
Lauren Bacall married Humphrey Bogart in 1945 when he was 45 and she was 20. They were married until the time of Bogart's death in 1957. Bacall was his fourth wife, but the mother of his only two children, born in 1949 and 1952.
Adrianne Curry
After his death, Bacall was married to Jason Robards, Jr. from 1961 to 1969.
Model Adrianne Curry married "Brady Bunch" actor Christopher Knight in 2006, when he was 47 and she was 24. The couple starred in their one reality show, "My Fair Brady," from 2005-2008, and they divorced in 2012.
Rachel Hunter
The marriage was Curry's first and Knight's third.
Rachel Hunter married Rod Stewart in 1990, when she was 20 and he was 45. They had two children, but separated in 1999 and divorced in 2006. In 2007, Stewart married Penny Lancaster. He was 62 and she was 35.
Elizabeth Taylor
They are still married today. Hunter has not re-married.
Elizabeth Taylor married Mike Todd on February 2, 1957, when she was 25 and he was 50. They had a daughter, Liza Todd, and remained married until he died in 1958. Taylor was married eight different times in her life to seven different men, but her marriage to Todd was the only one not to end in divorce.
Bo Derek
She called him one of the three loves her life, along with Richard Burton (husband #5 and #6) and jewelry. Burton later adopted Liza.
Bo Derek (born Mary Cathleen Collins) married actor/director John Derek in 1976, when she was 20 and he was 50. They had become romantically involved when she was only 16, and the couple fled to Germany to escape charges of statutory rape. They remained married until his death in 1998.
Mia Farrow
Bo Derek has been in a relationship with the actor John Corbett since 2002. John Derek was previously married to three other women.
Mia Farrow married Frank Sinatra in 1966, when he was 50 and she was 21. They divorced less than two years later when Sinatra objected to Farrow's involvement in the film Rosemary's Baby. Farrow later married André Previn, and she was in a 10 year relationship with Woody Allen.
Gloria Vanderbilt
Sinatra had three other wives: Nancy Sinatra, Ava Gardner, and Barbara Marx.
Gloria Vanderbilt married Leopold Stokowski in 1945, when she was 21 and he was 63. The couple had two sons, but divorced in 1955.
Holland Taylor and Sarah Paulson
Vanderbilt has been married four times in total.
Sarah Paulson recently talked about her relationship with fellow actor Lauren Holland, with whom she's been involved for about a year.
Billy Joel and Alexis Roderick
In an interview with the New York Times, Paulson recalls first meeting Holland at a dinner party about a decade ago, and thinking that she was “probably the most exquisitely beautiful woman ever seen.”
Billy Joel married Alexis Roderick, a senior risk officer at Morgan Stanley, in 2015. A little perspective: she's only three years older than his daughter Alexis (whose name is not far from "Alexa," but don't think about that too much).
Patrick Stewart and Sunny Ozell
Prior to Roderick, Joel was married to another much younger woman, food critic Katie Lee, who is a year older than his current wife.
Sir Patrick Stewart and singer/songwriter Sunny Ozell met through a mutual friend in 2008, when she was working as a waitress in New York City. According to Stewart, "sparks flew instantly between them" (apparently, not the dangerous kind). She wanted to see a show he was performing in, but it was sold out, so Stewart gave Ozell his number and told her to call him.
Steve Martin and Anne Stringfield
He claims that's the first time he's ever done that, and it worked—because the two got married in 2013, and now he's got a father-in-law who is five years younger than him.
Steve Martin married writer and former New Yorker staffer Anne Stringfield in 2007; Lorne Michaels was the Best Man.
Richard Lugner and Cathy Schmitz
In 2015, when Martin was receiving the 43rd American Film Institute Life Achievement Award, Tina Fey joked that Martin had married "a woman who is, I think, a younger, thinner, smarter version of me."
A 57 year age difference? You're probably thinking, "She's in it for the money." Don't be so cynical—there's no way that when Australian billionaire Richard Lugner married Playboy model Cathy Schmitz (his fifth wife) in 2014, it was based on anything more than pure love and attraction.
Jeff Goldblum and Emilie Livingston
They probably have so much in common, like loving money and…loving money.
Every straight woman's heart broke a little when Jeff Goldblum married Emilie Livingston in 2014, because it meant that the silver fox was officially off the market (come on, you never stood a chance). And then their hearts completely crumbled, because he'd married someone 30 years younger than him.
Eddie Murphy and Australian model Paige Butcher
Oh, and she's a contortionist, too.
Eddie Murphy and Australian model Paige Butcher started dating in 2012. They're not married, but she's pregnant with their baby, and due in May of this year.
Robin Thicke and April Love Geary
This will be Murphy's ninth child.
After his disastrous divorce from his ex Paula in 2015, Robin Thicke began dating model April Love Geary. Their first "official" appearance together was at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2015.
Dick Van Dyke and Arlene Silver
Hopefully if/when this relationship ends, he will not make an entire album about her, because yikes.
Beloved actor/grinning skull Dick Van Dyke met makeup artist Arlene Silver at a SAG Awards dinner in 2006. Van Dyke talked to Oprah: Where Are They Now? a bit about how his relationship with Silver began: “She would drop by, cook my dinner or bring me dinner, and just took care of me.
Kelsey Grammer and Kayte Walsh
So, I mean, I had to marry her. I became totally dependent!” They got married in 2012. The couple says their 46 year difference in age is not a problem, although Van Dyke has jokingly referred to Silver as his “child bride.”
Kelsey Grammer started an affair with Kayte Walsh six months before he left his wife of 12 years, Camille (one of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills). They met in 2009 when she was a flight attendant on a flight he was on. After the flight, they spent what he called a "magical night" together in London.
Bruce Willis and Emma Heming
And apparently that magic kept going, because he married her in 2011, making her his fourth wife. The big question is: what would Fraser think of all this?
Bruce Willis married English model Emma Heming in 2009. Before that, he was married to Demi Moore, and after they split, Moore famously got involved with Ashton Kutcher, 15 years her junior.
Bruce Willis and Emma Heming
So while they may not still be married, Willis and Moore at least have that in common.
Bruce Willis married English model Emma Heming in 2009. Before that, he was married to Demi Moore, and after they split, Moore famously got involved with Ashton Kutcher, 15 years her junior.
Bruce Willis and Emma Heming
So while they may not still be married, Willis and Moore at least have that in common.
Bruce Willis married English model Emma Heming in 2009. Before that, he was married to Demi Moore, and after they split, Moore famously got involved with Ashton Kutcher, 15 years her junior.
Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn
So while they may not still be married, Willis and Moore at least have that in common.
Woody Allen and Soon-yi Previn's relationship has the added ick factor of Woody having been in a serious long-term relationship with Previn's adoptive mother, Mia Farrow. So when Allen and Previn wed in 1997, not only did Allen marry someone young enough to be his daughter, he sort of a little bit in a way totally did marry his daughter.
Lorenzo Lamas and Shawna
Lorenzo Lamas married his fifth wife, Shauna Craig, in 2011. As for how the age difference affects their relationship, Lamas told ET: "It initially.
Doug Hutchison (55) and Courtney Stodden
Of course it would. My friends said, 'What could you possibly have in common with a person that's 30 years younger than you?' I told them, 'Everything.'"
Actor Doug Hutchison surprised/creeped out the world when, at the age of 51, he married 16-year-old Courtney Stodden. They met when she contacted him about taking an acting workshop from him, and the romance blossomed through emails and phone calls.
Warren Beatty and Annette Bening
Since then, Stodden has gone on to be on a few reality shows, including Celebrity Big Brother and (surprise, surprise) VH1's Couples Therapy.
Warren Beatty, a notorious womanizer who has (maybe) slept with 12,775 women, met Annette Benning in 1990. He was set to star in the mafia drama Bugsy, and was in search of someone to play his leading lady.
She had lunch with him (even though her agent warned her against it, saying that Beatty would just hit on her), and afterwards, Beatty called Bugsy director Barry Levinson and told him “I love her, and I’m going to marry her.” And he did, in 1992.